2010),"The moderating effect of business strategy on the relationship between operations strategy and firms' results"If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper here is to present an operational model that establishes the necessary relationship between business strategy and operations strategy. Accordingly, managers are enabled to define strategic business elements in the operations unit and align it with the business strategies. Design/methodology/approach -Data were collected from 160 companies using a combination of structured interviews and closed questionnaire. In developing the alignment model, descriptive-survey and correlation methods were used. For selecting the codes and types of alignments, a heuristic data analysis method was developed and applied. Findings -This paper concludes that alignment is significantly different in successful and unsuccessful companies. Considering their performance, 25 alignment types have been identified out of which seven types have been found appropriate for the case. Practical implications -The recommended model here is easy to use and helps managers to improve the performance of their companies by aligning their operation strategy with business strategy. Originality/value -This paper presents a model that includes the content and process of operations strategy, using top-down and resource-based approaches. This model associates alignment with organizations performance, a subject that has been considered as one of the major and challenging issues in the strategic management efforts. Overall, a new and innovative model has been proposed here for building a vertical alignment between the strategies of the firm. The proposed alignment comes in two different levels.

The gap between universities, scientific centers and industrial-production units is one of higher education concerns. In academic entrepreneurship, the university work simultaneously in education, research and entrepreneurship. The universities play a key and important role in providing educational opportunities in economic development. This research aims to develop and expand science as well as help managers to explain the process of technology transfer in entrepreneurial university. This research is applied-developmental type and on the other hand, data driven theories have been used in this study. Current model is generally tried to meanwhile compensate previous shortcomings, include some strengths such as considering domestic factors of Iran as well as update effective factors on the process of technology transfer. Finally the suggested model has been compared with existing well-known models that each one of those models have some drawbacks which have been tried to be minimized in suggested model as much as possible.

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